#Caturday :
Samuel F.B. Morse (American, 1791-1872)
Little Miss Hone, 1824
Oil on canvas mounted on plywood
On display at MFA Boston
“Best known for inventing the telegraph & the Morse code, Samuel Morse began his career as a painter.
Echoing sentimental English pictures of children, Morse shows her rehearsing her future role as a mother.
‘I shall paint her with a cat set up in her lap like a baby, with a towel under its chin, & a cap on its head, & she employed in feeding it with a spoon.’”